Tyre workers still out
Rubber workers at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company’s Papanui factory yesterday voted unanimously to continue their strike indefinitely.
The 220 workers walked off the job on Thursday morning and met again yesterday to consider further action.
They decided they would not return to work until the employers agreed to go to a disputes committee under an independent chairman to settle the dispute over selecti’ e reinstatement of six of 12 men dismissed before Christmas. "The men have taken ex-1
“They will remain on call and will be ready to return to work on the call of union officials. They will get this call as soon as agreement is reached to go to a disputes committee,” he said.
Executives of the company would make no comment.
ception to the management’s refusal to bring this matter to a disputes committee, and so they feel they must continue this job action,” said the president of the Canterbury Rubber W’orkers’ Union (Mr C. A. Hanson) after the meeting.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33191, 3 April 1973, Page 1
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